Chewed bark, leaves and fruit discarded by mountain gorillas provide a simple way to test the endangered apes for viruses without disturbing them, according to scientists from the University of ...

The mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei), a subspecies of the eastern gorilla, is an endangered species that only lives in the wild in two regions. There were once fewer than 500 ...

A new baby Western Lowland Gorilla was welcomed to the world at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CMZoo) on Monday, July 21–the first of its kind born at the zoo in nearly 13 years. Asha, a 32-year-old ...

An orphaned mountain gorilla who made news in 2019 after she and another gorilla photobombed a park ranger, died Sept. 26 at the age of 14 in the arms of the man who had cared for her.

In the early morning hours of Monday, 32-year-old gorilla Asha gave birth to a healthy baby, marking the zoo’s first gorilla ...

CMZoo says Western Lowland Gorillas are critically endangered, and their numbers are still continuing to decline. Zoo ...

The opportunity to see mountain gorillas in the wild has become a lucrative eco-tourism business adding an estimated $120 billion to global GDP in 2018 and funding habitat conservation efforts. An ...

Tourists could be spreading the virus causing COVID-19 to wild mountain gorillas by taking selfies with the animals without following precautions. Researchers from Oxford Brookes University ...

A mountain gorilla walks in the forest of East Africa's Virunga Volcanoes conservation area. It stops at a piece of wild celery, sits down, and begins to chew. It strips the vegetable's fibrous ...

Tourists who take selfies with wild mountain gorillas could put the primates at risk of developing Covid-19, according to new research. Scientists from Oxford Brookes University, England, looked ...

Orphaned mountain gorilla, Ndakasi, lies in the arms of her caregiver, Andre Bauma, on September 21, 2021 shortly before her death, which the park confirmed on September 26.

A mountain gorilla walks in the forest of East Africa’s Virunga Volcanoes conservation area. It stops at a piece of wild celery, sits down, and begins to chew. It strips the vegetable’s fibrous ...